This video clip shows Boogaloo Barry dancing a threesome with 2 of his students after a lesson. These students had only been dancing salsa for 2 months at the time of filming. The style is mixed Cuban & LA style.
Had the ladies been dancing salsa for at least 1 year, it should have looked more like this L.A. style display.
Here are some links to video clips showing Cuban style salsa.
Jorge Camaguey
La Rueda De Casino
Competition includes Cuban Mambo, Son, Reggaeton, Salsa & Cha Cha Cha
This clip shows a blend of Puerto Rican & Cuban style salsa at the Tropicana Tropics World Championships.
Jhesus Appointe (From Puerto Rico) & Yanet Fuentes Torres (From Cuba living in London)
These links show some popular LA style performers.
Alex Da Silva & Alien Ramirez' in their prize winning routine
Luis, Johnny and Francisco Vasquez (the Vasquez brothers) dancing socially
Johnny Vazquez y Carolina Cerisola
Johnny Vazquez & Ramon Morales dancing swing 2002
These links to video clips show Cali Style Salsa (Colombian style with a hint of LA Style),
Triple World Champions Swing Latino,
Double World Champions Ricardo Murillo & Viviana Vargas Double World Champions,
Another amazing performance well worth watching Sonido Bestial - Kids Dancing Salsa Music.
This video clip shows the World Championship Las Vegas 2006 with various styles.
This video clip of Franklin Diaz & Yesenia Peralta (New York) shows dancing New York Style (On2),
This video clip of World Champions Oliver Pineda & Luda Kroiter (Austalia) shows dancing New York Style (On2),
Cristel Yorke & Iran Castillo (Holland & San Diego) demonstrate a New York Style (On2) routine (lesson).
Learn how to dance Basic Merengue.
Learn how to dance Basic Cha Cha Cha (International Style). Note that Men step forwards on beat 2 whilst Ladies step back,
International Style Cha Cha Cha Performance,
American Style Cha Cha Cha Performance with Frankie Martinez & Lori Perez,
Learn how to dance Basic Cha Cha Cha (American Style) - Note that American style reverses Ladies & Men's timing to International style.
Here we see brilliant salsa dancers performing cha cha cha at a Salsa Congress and then they change beat to breaking on 1 instead of On2 after a pause in the music and the rest of the troupe join in. They should have known better. No wonder it takes years to convince people to dance cha cha cha breaking on beat 2 :(
This video clip shows Pachanga. Note how it is similar to, Cali style salsa. Grupo Niche's song is called "Cali Pachangero".
This video clip shows Boogaloo as danced in Colombia. Note how it is similar to, but bouncier than Pachanga. The music is similar too. Colombian Boogaloo should not to be confused with Electric Boogaloo which is like Hip Hop.
This video clip shows Colombian Cumbia Dance Performance With Gala Conjunto Folclórico Rayenco Chile.
Here we see a basic Afro-Cuban Rumba lesson with Twice Tropicana world champion Rafael and 3 times Champion Yanet (featured in another salsa video clip above). There are 3 types of Afro-Cuban Rumba - Yambú, Guaguancó and Columbia.
This video clip shows an International style Rumba competiton. Note that this dance bears no resemblance to Afro-Cuban Rumba. It is most likely that there was a language problem when this dance was originally brought to Europe & America from Cuba. International style Rumba is a cross between Bolero & Son. Note that both son & International style Rumba both break on beat 2 not on 1 as in Salsa. Cha Cha Cha, Salsa & Mambo all developed mostly from Son.
This video clip shows a part of the classic film West Side Story. It incorporates an early interpretation of Mambo whereby the it resembles swing which was still popular in the USA at the time before the word "Salsa" had been used to describe music or a dance. Cha Cha Cha & Boogaloo were popular around this time, but Salsa & pop music gradually pushed them out of popularity a decade or so later in the USA.
This video clip shows an International style Samba competiton. Note that it is a partner dance which bears little resemblance to the authentic Brazilian Samba below although the music is the same.
This video clip shows Highlights of the 2007 Rio Carnaval. This is authentic Brazilian Samba. Note that it is a solo dance.
This video clip shows Lambada by Kaoma.
This video clip shows Zouk Lambada which seems to be the more popular style nowadays.
This video clip shows Kizomba. Note how similar the music is to Zouk above, but the dance is more like Argentinean Tango.
This video clip shows Hustle (Ballroom Style). This became very popular in New York in the 1970's to date, but sadly never spread much outside the USA despite the popularity of the music.
This video clip shows Jive (not to be confused with Modern Jive).
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